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Empirical Evidence
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Observability and Sensory Dependence
Empirical data is fundamentally reliant on sensory input, either directly by human observers or indirectly through calibrated instruments. A key tenet is that the evidence must be accessible to measurement. Phenomena that cannot, even in principle, be recorded by a suitably designed sensor array-such as the internal cognitive state of a non-sentient mineral-are often relegated to [m…